{"title":"Tobie Nathan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTobie Nathan\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling blend of narratives that explore human experience across diverse settings. Readers can expect richly woven stories that delve into themes of identity, culture, and the complexities of healing, reflecting both contemporary and timeless concerns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlurring the boundaries between fiction and insightful reflection, Nathan’s works invite readers to wander through intricate emotional landscapes. Whether through evocative fiction or thoughtful explorations of knowledge, his writing challenges and engages with profound sensitivity.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-land-like-you-by-tobie-nathan-9781803091969","title":"A Land Like You","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA riveting and revealing tale of an Egypt caught between tradition and modernity, multiculturalism and nationalism, oppression and freedom.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCairo 1925, Haret al-Yahud, the old Jewish Quarter. Esther, a beautiful young woman believed to be possessed by demons, longs to give birth after seven blissful years of marriage. Her husband, blind since childhood, does not object when, in her effort to conceive, she participates in Muslim zar rituals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eZohar, the novel’s narrator, comes into the world, but because his mother’s breasts are dry, he is nursed by a Muslim peasant—also believed to be possessed—who has just given birth to a girl, Masreya. Suckled at the same breasts and united by a rabbi’s amulet, the milk-twins will be consumed by a passionate, earth-shaking love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart fantastical fable, part realistic history, \u003cem\u003eA Land Like You\u003c\/em\u003e draws on ethno-psychiatrist Tobie Nathan’s deep knowledge of North African folk beliefs to create a glittering tapestry in which spirit possession and religious mysticism exist side by side with sober facts about the British occupation of Egypt and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Free Officers’ Movement. Historical figures such as Gamel Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, and King Farouk mingle with Nathan’s fictional characters in this engaging story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853211029740,"sku":"9781803091969","price":46.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27019783482829.jpg?v=1759192023"},{"product_id":"wandering-souls-by-tobie-nathan-9781509534968","title":"Wandering Souls","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn September 2014, the French government entrusted Tobie Nathan with the task of counselling radicalised young people who had been drawn to jihadism, and in this book he recounts his experiences of some of the young people he met and counselled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe describes what he heard, felt, and perceived in his encounters with these young people and their loved ones as he tried to understand the forces running through them and grasp what their fate held in store for them. In so doing, he shows that the history of radicalisations is not the history of ‘natures’ but of metamorphoses – an unpredictable journey, with moments of immobility punctuated by sudden intoxication at the thought of other futures. It is a history of wandering souls who find themselves unable to form a narrative of origin and are in thrall to harmful forces but who may find a way home one day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis deeply humane and engaging book will be of great interest to everyone concerned with the issue of radicalisation and with the deep and growing challenges our societies face in accommodating difference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47433280684268,"sku":"9781509534968","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509534968.jpg?v=1774765280"},{"product_id":"doctors-and-healers-by-tobie-nathan-9781509521869","title":"Doctors and Healers","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe think we know what healers do: they build on patients’ irrational beliefs and treat them in a ‘symbolic’ way. If they get results, it’s thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what modern medicine is: a highly technical and rational process, but one that scarcely listens to patients at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDoctors and Healers\u003c\/i\u003e, ethnopsychiatrist Tobie Nathan and philosopher Isabelle Stengers argue that this commonly posed opposition between traditional and modern medicine is misleading. They show instead that healers are interesting \u003ci\u003eprecisely\u003c\/i\u003e because they don’t listen to patients, using techniques of ‘divination’ rather than ‘diagnosis’. Healers construct genuine therapeutic strategies by identifying the origins of symptoms in external forces, outside of the mind of the sufferer. Modern medicine, for its part, is characterized by empiricism rather than rationality. What appears to be the pursuit of rationality is ultimately only a means to dismiss and exclude other forms of treatment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlurring the distinctions between traditional and modern practices and drawing on perspectives from across the globe, this ethnopsychiatric manifesto encourages us to think in radically new ways about illness, challenging accepted notions on the relationship between sufferer and symptom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460705435884,"sku":"9781509521869","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509521869-doctors-and-healers.jpg?v=1774951099"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/tobie-nathan.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}